The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) has amended its arbitration rules (SCC rules) effective from 1 January 2017. The latest arbitration rules adopted by the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) took effect on 1 January 2015. The two institutions have maintained sound co-operation and learned from each other in drafting and implementing arbitration rules.
Based on a comprehensive examination of their respective arbitration rules, the authors find that both are striving to provide more procedural facilitation to parties in dispute, including appointing a secretary to handle specific disputes, improving the arbitration tribunal’s hearing procedures, and allowing several contractual disputes to be arbitrated in one case.
In order to strike a balance between protecting the disputing parties’ procedural rights and enhancing procedural efficiency, the two bodies adopt different procedural arrangements. The article seeks to expound on their different arrangements from the aspects of joinder of additional parties, consolidation of arbitrations and consent award.
Li Hu is the deputy secretary-general of the CIETAC and a board member of the SCC. Lu Yahan is a case manager at the CIETAC
